The CODA 8-Channel High Throughput Non-Invasive Blood Pressure system measures the blood pressure in up to 8 mice or rats simultaneously. The CODA tail-cuff system uses Volume Pressure Recording (VPR) to measure the blood pressure by determining the tail blood volume. A specially designed differential pressure transducer and an occlusion tail-cuff measure the total blood volume in the tail with...

Environmental gradients caused by hydrological changes, whether natural or maninduced, affect the planktonic taxonomic and functional composition in shallow water ecosystems. In this sense, our aim was to find out the main variables or variable ratios that are the driving forces of the major phytoplankton taxonomic groups in Mediterranean coastal lagoons. For this purpose, 11 waterbodies were c...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the reliability of the Cartesian Optoelectronic Dynamic Anthropometer (CODA) motion system in measuring the cervical range of motion (ROM) and verify the construct validity of the CODA motion system. A total of 26 patients with cervical spondylosis and 22 patients with anterior cervical fusion were enrolled and the CODA motion analysis system was use...

This paper focuses on the perception and production of the English alveolar stops (/t/ and /d/) in syllable coda by Brazilian learners of English. In the production test, the participants read a list of English sentences containing alveolar stops in word-final position. The preceding and following phonological contexts were controlled, so that the effect of context on the production of the alve...

Ultrasonic measurements are used in civil engineering for structural health monitoring of concrete infrastructures. The late portion the ultrasonic wavefield, coda, is sensitive to small changes elastic moduli material. Coda Wave Interferometry (CWI) correlates these coda with wavefield recorded intact, or unperturbed, specimen reveal amount velocity change that occurred. CWI has potential dete...

This paper reports a numerical study of the sensitivity and applicability Nonlinear Coda Wave Interferometry (NCWI) method in heterogeneous material with localized microcracked zone. We model influence strong pump wave on zone as small average increase length each crack. Further probing this multiply scattered ultrasonic induces changes to coda-type signal, which are quantified coda interferome...

We close by describing two rather unusual applications of complex variables. The details are beyond the scope of this book, but the ideas involved definitely deserve mention. The first area of application is fluid dynamics. It was observed already in the nineteenth century that the equations describing the incompressibility and irrotationality of fluids are just the Cauchy-Riemann equations for...